Are You READY ?
Are you ready, trembling soul, to give up your all ? To turn AWAY from your life here on earth . . . and all that you savor ?
To EMPTY yourself of every human plan and desire . . . in order to HAVE the out-pouring of the HOLY SPIRIT hit you ?
If your goal in life is to be COMFORTABLE first, HE+ will indeed allow you to pursue your goal . . . without The unction of The Bless-ed HOLY SPIRIT.
If your goal is to become SECURE here on earth, HE+ will allow this pursuit too . . . but the HOLY SPIRIT will not become your place of security.
If your goal is to have the GIFTS of the SPIRIT operating, but only within your system of theology . . . then you will have to make up those gifts yourself --- those look-alike, sound-alike activities --- which have NO POWER TO TRANSFORM lives.
The GIFTS of The SPIRIT are given to produce the Church. The Church which follows JESUS CHRIST as LORD cannot be --- is not able to be --- produced WITHOUT the GIFTS of The HOLY SPIRIT.
The GIFTS of The SPIRIT are not earned, learned, nor procured by human means.
No, rather, they are poured out by The LORD HIMSELF+ when we come into order with His+ Will.
They are given in order to BUILD the Body of CHRIST here on earth; they are NOT given to make us become stars or religious leaders.
His+ Body can only be built by Supernatural power; all else is fruitless and vain.
Organizations of natural-minded men will not succeed in building His+ Body here on earth. It can only be built by The SPIRIT. Operating a “church” without the unction of the HOLY SPIRIT will produce a natural-minded congregation with natural-minded activities.
Are you READY ?
Are you READY to die out to Self, the deadliest enemy we each face ?
Are you READY to take the lowest position in the eyes of man and in your OWN eyes ?
Are you READY to forsake all your potential as a clever, money-wise publican and tax-collector, as Levi did ?
Are you READY to forsake all your well-trained skills at fishing and conducting a prosperous fishing business, as Peter did ?
Are you READY to forsake all the reputation which follows your family-line , as the highly-educated Paul did ?
. . . in order to have the RICHES of The GIFTS given by GOD through The HOLY SPIRIT ?
The only thing blocking the GIFTS of The HOLY SPIRIT today is our love of our Self-life.
If we humble ourselves LOW ENOUGH, then HE+ will send His+ HIGHER GIFTS of The HOLY SPIRIT.
Are you READY ?
Do you even WANT to be ready ?
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ACTS 1
1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that JESUS began both to do and teach,
2 Until the day in which HE+ was taken up, after that HE+ through The HOLY SPIRIT had given commandments unto the apostles whom HE+ had chosen:
3 To whom also HE+ shewed Himself+ alive after His+ passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them 40 days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of GOD:
4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem,
but wait for the promise of The FATHER,
but wait for the promise of The FATHER,
but wait for the promise of The FATHER,
but wait for the
promise of The FATHER,
which, saith HE+
"Ye have heard of ME+. 5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the HOLY SPIRIT not many days hence." . . .
8 "But ye shall receive power, after that The HOLY SPIRIT is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto ME+ both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."
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It is The SPIRIT that quickeneth;
the flesh profiteth nothing:
the Words that I+, I+ speak unto you,
they are Spirit,
and they are Life.
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